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Downloading open source applications can sometimes be a pain in the neck. There can be multiple drivers, a variety of related components and a handful of little status bars that move from left to right at varying rates of speed.

Cloud management professionals RightScale recently announced the results of its second annual State of the Cloud survey, and the research says essentially the more it's done, the better it gets.

RightScale's State of the Cloud survey finds Amazon the public cloud leader -- but IT is looking to Rackspace, Google and Microsoft for added testing and experiments.

As reported by my friend and Forbes writer Joe McKendrick, "A new survey finds that roughly one out of four organizations are heavily into cloud computing, and they are providing lessons from which everyone else can benefit." The lessons come from having two or three years of real experience, enough time to see the real benefits and issues.

A RightScale survey released last week said bigger companies - those with more than 1,000 employees - are "slightly more likely" to claim cloud adoption than their smaller brethren: 77 percent of large companies surveyed said they're adopting cloud in some form compared to 73 percent for smaller companies.

Companies like Cloudyn want to make Amazon Web Services less of a mystery to its users, but they have lots of competition - including from Amazon itself.

RightScale research says one cloud won't fit all; mobile development landgrab continues with Facebook-Parse deal; Michael Dell talks up cloud opportunity.

Enterprises are leaning toward a "public first" approach to hybrid cloud adoption since private clouds require more time to build and set up A new study by cloud management provider RightScale finds that small and medium-sized businesses are more reliant on cloud infrastructure than enterprises.

Is cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found.